On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:51:51 +1000 James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<SNIP> > The first port-of-call will be to run > > tail -f ~/.xsession-errors > > On a console and wait for it to die. If there's an error from a > program running *inside* the xserver, it will report something in that > file about it. This will allow you eliminate problems with > xscreensaver, typing monitors, window managers and probably a bunch of > other processes that don't normally bear consideration. OK: here is the message: Gdk - Warning **: locale not supported by C library X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) > Next thing to do is to run > > tail -f /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > as root (I'm assuming that's the file you need to watch -- all my > boxes are Xorg now). If there's a problem in the server itself, you > should get notification in that file. Message here is: (WW) Open APM failed ==> /var/log/XFree86.0.log: file truncated <== > > When tailing files like that I like to bash enter a few times once the > system is in a "stable" state, so that the section of log where it's > an error is clearly visible. > > If you can't make sense of these logs, post them to the list and maybe > someone will see something in them. > > Finally, do you get logged out if you login from console and do > > startx -- :1 > > If not, then it's a [gkx]dm problem. There's some options in gdm about > timed sessions. I don't recall what they are or what they do. Worth > checking out though. I'll try this next. Thanks for help. Alan > > HTH, > > James. > > -- > James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
